But selling anything on an "unlimited" basis kind of requires the background knowledge that the "middle 99%" of your customers consume about the same amount of product (maybe a 5x or 10x difference).

This is why Chinese Restaurants can get away with buffet pricing. Almost everyone who comes in will eat 2 or 3 plates full. Some will eat only one, but nobody will eat 15 plates of food during a single meal, so the manager can count on the law of averages to make things work out at the end of the month.

If the difference in monthly cellular data consumption between a grandmother using an i...(continues)

sparker781 said:So essentially what he suggested to me to keep my Unlimited data was more of a work-around than a solution...?

Essentially, yes.

Verizon is doing everything they can to phase out unlimited data, and I can't call that a bad thing entirely. I believe people should pay for what they use and NOT pay for what they DON'T use (my smartphone bill with Ting last month was less than $31, with a little over 500 minutes and a little under 500 MB- try and beat that value somewhere else).

If you want Verizon's service, you have to play Verizon's game. In our culture, the carriers make the rules, and the consumers decide if they want to play ball or not. That isn't likely to change until monop...(continues)

The very concept of "unlimited" is a pipe dream, a childish notion. As such, anyone who believes that everyone should get as much of anything they want, totally unlimited & at the price they themselves think they should pay for it, is allowing their emotions to prevail over logic, reason and common sense.

That petition provides absolutely no facts, it is strictly someone's fervent opinions, with no supporting evidence to back up its strident claims. THAT'S probably why it has fooled only a very small percentage of people into signing it, because it's simply an unreasonable request, rather than a serious, sustainable proposal supported by facts.